He’s talking about a physical object, something you have on your desk that you can pick up and prove your identity to the person on the other end of the video call.

Reminds me of the ‘totems’ in Inception, except they were to prove to yourself you were not in a dream.

From the github if you were wondering:

Free, open-source, self-hosted wardrobe organizer. Catalog clothes, build outfits, PWA. Docker one-liner deploy.

I think all these measures are designed to slow the flow, spread the storage of the rain across more places so it can cope with the larger downfall in the short-term, buying time for it all to flow away once it has passed.

There are similar ideas in UK with reintroduction of beavers who transform land into spongey floodplains that can tolerate much more rainfall before spilling over.

Canenter, Canentrance, Can’entree?

If Kate Winslet is in it (Goldberry?) can we have Leonardo DiCaprio (Tom Bombadil) as part of the Titanic Extended Universe

On the positive side the PMOS device wiki for Fairphone 4 is accurate to what he discovered i.e. audio, battery and calls not yet fully working:

https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Fairphone_4_(fairphone-fp4)

I mention https://lemmy.ca/c/linuxphones in case you’ve not found it already. It’s not like an authoritive, central forum where everyone goes but maybe it’s a start.

The bloom visual at around 1m24s is so helpful

I assume they hope that their added license condition of an ‘obligation to retain the original product logo’ is a ‘reasonable…author attribution’ (AGPL section 7b). Hmm.

They invite the FSF to judge:

If FSF determines that our license and project align with AGPLv3, we will continue as an open-source initiative. However, if the decision goes against us, we are ready to consider other options.

https://www.onlyoffice.com/blog/2026/03/interview-with-lev-bannov-ceo-at-onlyoffice-on-the-euro-office-situation

Little bit more on it here:

https://forum.syncthing.net/t/does-anyone-know-why-syncthing-fork-is-no-longer-available-on-github/25661/251

Minimal wrapper for Syncthing on Android. Unlike Syncthing-Fork, it does not use Android’s Storage Access Framework to avoid performance degradation. The intention behind this project can be found here. This one needs more vetting from the community to determinate if the developer is trustworthy.

This is a more recent view:

https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/20/uk_palantir_contracts/

Speaking to MPs, science minister Patrick Vallance said that the government’s deals with Palantir – which has large contracts with the NHS and the Ministry of Defence – would be done differently in the future, instead emphasizing investment in UK technology and companies.

For example filesystems like btrfs can be very sensitive to errors in ram due to all the checksumming. On the positive side you’ll know about it fast!

Frankenstein seconded, more than you might expect from the film versions.

Moby Dick

https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/herman-melville/moby-dick

They messed up on this only days ago! Has been fixed though:

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/03/05/cra-guidances/

Not used bacula myself, couldn’t say.

You might also want to keep an eye on vykar which is promising all the best bits from restic/borg:

https://github.com/borgbase/vykar

More than one it seems:

https://forum.typst.app/t/tinymist-vs-typst-vim-vs-typst-preview-nvim/1775/7

For restic:

1. Every backup is incremental after the first or rather restic makes no distinction because it chunks and dedups the data on the way in so if it’s already in the repo it doesn’t get stored twice.
2. Restic has customisable ‘forget’ cmd that can do whatever you want
3. Restic has filtering flags, you can use a gitignore style file also. Many people use a wrapper though like autorestic.
4. The ghost files are interesting. Restic has nothing special for this. A script that mirrored those files and wrote them all as 0 bytes which restic could then backup would be possible, this would work same for any backup tool.
5. You get that summary after every restic backup. You can also compare snapshots and mount them all to run your own analysis if you want.
6. Again if you mount a restic backup you have access to every file and snapshot taken in the repo. You could compare or diff them using usual tools.
7. There is a ‘exclude-if-present’ option where you can say if a file with the name of your choosing is present do not backup that dir etc

Rick Astley’s birthday is 6th Feb 1966, just saying